Will How I Met Your Mother finally reveal the mum in 2013?

Is How I Met Your Mother ever actually going to unveil the identity of the mother in its title? The sitcom's creators have promised that the big reveal is coming... it's just a matter of when.

Is How I Met Your Mother ever actually going to unveil the identity of the mother in its title? The sitcom's creators have promised that the big reveal is coming... it's just a matter of when.

The comedy has been renewed through to the end of its eighth season in mid-2013, suggesting the mother will have to be introduced before then.

There's a catch, though: Mother is currently earning its highest ever ratings in the States — weird for a show that's seven years old — and TV networks aren't fans of ending high-ratings series.

But fans who've patiently waited to meet the mother needn't fret that the her identity will be dragged out another couple of years if the sitcom's life is extended.

Speaking to reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour, series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas revealed that they've discussed how to continue the show after we finally meet the mother.

"We’ve had conversations about rewinding back to 2005 and doing a series called How I Met Your Father,” joked Thomas, according to TV Line. “From the perspective of what was happening with the Mother all those years."

And when the mother is introduced the duo already knows how it's going to play out.

"We have it worked out," said Bays, according to E! Online. "It's obvious this show is around one central question, so that meeting will be part of the endgame of the show. How much the show will go beyond that [meeting], we can't really say one way or the other."